TY  - GEN
T1  - American sovereigns : the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War
T2  - Cambridge studies on the American Constitution.
A1  - Fritz, Christian G., 1953-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge England ; New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn318824486
AB  - American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War challenges traditional American constitutional history, theory and jurisprudence that sees today's constitutionalism as linked by an unbroken chain to the 1787 Federal constitutional convention. American Sovereigns examines the idea that after the American Revolution, a collectivity - the people - would rule as the sovereign. Heated political controversies within the states and at the national level over what it meant that the people were the sovereign and how that collective sovereign could express its will were not resolved in 1776, in 1787, or prior to the Civil War. The idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union. Today's constitutionalism is not a natural inheritance, but the product of choices Americans made between shifting understandings about themselves as a collective sovereign.
OP  - 427
CN  - KF4881 .F75 2008eb
SN  - 9780511480386
SN  - 0511480385
SN  - 0521881889
SN  - 9780521881883
SN  - 9780521125604
SN  - 052112560X
SN  - 9780511800580
SN  - 0511800584
SN  - 1107185165
SN  - 9781107185166
SN  - 1282001248
SN  - 9781282001244
SN  - 0511479581
SN  - 9780511479588
SN  - 9786612001246
SN  - 6612001240
SN  - 0511477171
SN  - 9780511477171
SN  - 0511478690
SN  - 9780511478697
KW  - USA : The United States Constitution : 1787
KW  - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer : Bitterfeld
KW  - Constituent power : United States : History.
KW  - People (Constitutional law) : United States : History.
KW  - States' rights (American politics) : History.
KW  - Federal government : United States : History.
KW  - Constitutional history : United States.
KW  - Statutes.
KW  - Constitution and Bylaws
KW  - Pouvoir constituant : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Peuple : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Histoire constitutionnelle : États-Unis.
KW  - Statuts.
KW  - statutes.
KW  - LAW : Constitutional.
KW  - LAW : Public.
KW  - Statutes
KW  - Constituent power
KW  - Constitutional history
KW  - Federal government
KW  - People (Constitutional law)
KW  - States' rights (American politics)
KW  - United States
KW  - Volkssouveränität
KW  - Staatsrecht
KW  - Verfassungsrecht
KW  - History
ER  -